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| Albuquerque's West Mesa area is the site of a very new city, an anomaly in a region full of very old towns. Only about 15 years old, RIO RANCHO (River Ranch) for many years was the first or second fastest growing city in the nation. A large part of the mesa was sectioned off, roads were established, Intel built one of its largest fabricating plants there, schools were built, and many subdivisions were established and houses built. Very unlike Albuquerque which is essentially a series of small villages many of which are in the old style adobe architecture, Rio Rancho almost looks like a California town with lawns and small ranch style houses.
There are larger, more expensive houses there too but the majority of the town is a series of subdivisions with a central service center. In the last few years at the foot of the West Mesa there has been a massive amount of commercial building including a veritable restaurant row servicing both Rio Rancho and Albuquerque, an extensive indoor mall (the Cottonwood Mall), a Super Wal-Mart and many other businesses. The growth is nothing short of phenomenal. Unlike the enormous amount of land owned by families in the South Valley of Albuquerque, Rio Rancho land and houses are available for anyone to purchase. This is newcomer heaven, a place that once provided housing mainly for Intel employees, it now attracts all newcomers to the Albuquerque area.
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